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What a sham! Protesters don’t know why they are protesting
What a sham! Protesters don’t know why they are protesting It was touted as a protest by depositors who have lost their money in the financially crippled Ceylinco Group. A scribe who wanted to interview some of those at the protest in Hulftsdorp on Wednesday walked up to one and asked how much he had [...]
Lobby
Ranil cheers up Govt. as Speaker claims Parliament is supreme
For another week, Parliament became the battleground where the ongoing fight for supremacy between the Legislature and the Judiciary was played out and this time around the Legislature made its stance clear, more vocally and forcefully. Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa, for the second time in less than two months, sent a strong rebuff to the judiciary [...]
Political Column
Constitutional crisis deepens as Parliament, SC take strong stand
Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland in the outskirts of the US capital of Washington had given him an “all clear” after a medical check-up. His own personal physician Prof. S.D. Jayaratne was also on hand to hear the good news. If he was upbeat about that, President Mahinda Rajapaksa was eager to [...]
5th Column
Casting stones from a cloud of sin
My Dear Athauda, I thought I must write to you after hearing that you had said in Parliament that the Chief Justice should resign. I know a lot of people who want to get rid of the Chief Justice these days but you seem to be the first to say so openly! At first, Athauda, [...]
The Economic Analysis
Massive trade deficit despite declining imports
The country is heading towards a massive trade deficit this year too despite declining imports in recent months. The decrease in imports in the last few months has not improved the trade balance in the first nine months as exports declined by US$ 457 million during this period. The trade deficit has risen to US$ [...]
Focus on Rights
Legality of government actions rendered politically irrelevant
This week, a committed New Delhi based civil rights advocate and incidentally a good friend, observed in a dispassionate aside to an otherwise entirely different conversation in that country that ‘this situation that Sri Lankans are facing regarding the political impeachment of the Chief Justice is quite alien for us to grasp here, even in [...]